Google has integrated satellite mapping from the acquired KeyHole into their mapping systems maps.google.com. The upper right hand of the map screen allows you to toggle between satellite pictures and road maps. It seems areas outside of the USA do not have road mapping or detailed satellite..yet. You should be able to zoom from view of entire North America down to a picture showing your home. Try the click and drag...amazing performance!

From their site: "sourceforge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development website, with the largest repository of Open Source code and applications available on the Internet. SourceForge.net provides free services to Open Source developers. "This community is and will increasing revolutionize software development. As of today there are 98,293 registered projects and 1,046,283 users. This Blog is running with several open source programs including SPHPBLOG, Debian Linux, PHP, Apache HTTP sever...I donated to the SPHPBLOG Sourceforge project today. The project admin has a classic approach to donations:"...This software is free, as in beer. However, beer is not free! So, for every donation of 5 USD (or more) I will purchase one beer..." Cheers! Happy to see that 10% also goes to supporting the fine work being done by Apache Foundation. Not surprising my Sourceforge userid is kcocco. Sourgeforge provides an e-mail forwarding for developers...mine is: kcocco@users.sourceforge.net
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Over the holiday Dad and I hacked a perl script that parses HTML pages from FoodNetwork.com. The goal was to get the episode numbers & names for Molto Mario recipes. Our first step was to save the index page of Mario recipes from FoodNetwork.com . We then used the Unix command wget to search the page for URL links and save the associated HTML pages into one directory. We then created a Perl script that opens each of the HTML files found in the directory and pulls out the data we needed.Here is an example of the output(episode number, name, recipe name) now ready to load into a database:MB2G15~Trastevere On a Sunday~Gnudi con Fiori di ZuccaMB2G15~Trastevere On a Sunday~Chicken with Sweet Peppers: Pollo con PeperoniMB2G17~Antica Bessetta~Bigoli - Basic RecipeMB2G17~Antica Bessetta~Bigoli Bianchi with Duck RaguMB2G17~Antica Bessetta~Bigoli Scuri

Here is the general script that can easily be altered to parse other shows:#!/usr/bin/perl##################################################################### recipestrip.pl# Text stripping script. Used on Foodnetwork html pages.# 3.28.2005 K & L Cocco## Program used to capture episode number & title and recipe tiles# from html files.# The raw html files were gathered from foodnetwork.com with wget command # using flags -i and -F.# example: wget -F -i capturedhtmlfile.html #####################################################################use Getopt::Long;use File::Basename;

2/27 Sunday with Mike & Dan, Clayton Peak, Brighton. Single ride pass to the top of Great Western Chair. Breaking out the old school boot packing with 5 laps! The panoramic above was created with Panoramic Factory. My last panaramic(Snowbasin) had better results using PhotoStitch software that comes with a Canon digital camera. PhotoStitch is amazing easy while Panoramic Factory has many slick configurable features. I original is 23,160 pixels wide. If you click on the image it will bring up a larger(yet still 10x smaller) 2,300 pixel version.

Mike carving it up.

Me entering chute, Mike taking pictures. You can see the cute that leads to the untouched snow skirt in picture above.

Dan sliding out of the bottom shoots of 10420 peak 'good buddy'. Left to right lines: Dan, Mike, Kevin. Check out the rollerballs.

Google has put out a new image/photo editing package. Dan, turned me on to program and said I should check out....here is what I found out: The software is FREE and quite slick. Picasa will inventory all photos by year and directory name. Hard drive cranked in the background for over an hour as it auto indexed the gazillion images on my PC. I enjoyed playing around with the photo editing features. Hats off to Picasa devolpers for putting intuitive controls on Photoshop type adjustments. Picasa - Google link